OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	144
Psychological Momentum	118
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	106
Let Me Choose: The Role of Choice in the Development of Executive Function Skills	85
The Psychology of Poverty: Current and Future Directions	83
Reconciling Loss Aversion and Gain Seeking in Judged Emotions	76
A Competitiveness-Based Theoretical Framework on the Psychology of Income Inequality	75
Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of “AI”	68
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Underlying Role of Diminished Access to Internal States	56
Models of Identity Signaling	56
Lie Detection: What Works?	55
Ten Lessons About Infants’ Everyday Experiences	53
Emotion as Information in Early Social Learning	52
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	46
The Development of Values in Middle Childhood: Five Maturation Criteria	46
Historical Psychology	45
From Objects to Unified Minds	45
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	44
How Can Deep Neural Networks Inform Theory in Psychological Science?	43
Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment	42
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	37
The Scams Among Us: Who Falls Prey and Why	36
Popular Psychology Through a Scientific Lens: Evaluating Love Languages From a Relationship Science Perspective	36
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	36
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	34

The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	34
Ancestral Diversity: A Socioecological Account of Emotion Culture	32
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	31
Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation	31
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	30
Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events	29
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	28
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	28
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement From Parent-Child Interaction in Informal Learning Environments	27
Anxiety and Mentalizing: Uncertainty as a Driver of Egocentrism	25
Cognitive Modeling With Representations From Large-Scale Digital Data	24
Moral-Exemplar Intervention: A New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution and Intergroup Reconciliation	24
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	23
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	23
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	22
The Predictive Brain Must Have a Limitation in Short-Term Memory Capacity	22
Color Semantics in Human Cognition	22
Embedding Cognition: Judgment and Choice in an Interdependent and Dynamic World	21
Music, Memory, and Imagination	21
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	19
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	19
Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	19
Constructing Craving: Applying the Theory of Constructed Emotion to Urge States	19
Filial Piety Across Sociocultural Context and the Life Span	18
Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports	17
Self-Control at 220 Miles per Hour: Steering and Braking to Achieve Optimal Outcomes During Adolescence	17
Addressing Anti-Blackness in Education Through Psychological Approaches to Racial and Radical Healing	17
Fundamental Motives Illuminate a Broad Range of Individual and Cultural Variations in Thought and Behavior	17
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	16
Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common?	16
The Nature and Nurture of Callous-Unemotional Traits	16
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	15
Chasing Unknown Bandits: Uncertainty Guidance in Learning and Decision Making	15
Ten Things You Should Know About Sign Languages	15
Personality Change Through Digital-Coaching Interventions	15
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	15
Rethinking the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Data-Driven Psychological Dimensions, Not Categories, as a Framework for Mental-Health Research, Treatment, and Training	15
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	15
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	15